WRONG
An injury; a tort; a violation of right or of law.The idea of rights naturally suggests the correlative one of wrongs; for every right iscapable of being violated. A right to receive
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An injury; a tort; a violation of right or of law.The idea of rights naturally suggests the correlative one of wrongs; for every right iscapable of being violated. A right to receive
To abandon or throw away; Ras when a thief, in his flight, throws aside the stolen goods, in order to facilitate his escape, he is technically said to waive them. In modern
Regardless of another’s rights. See WANTONNESS.
In Scottish law. Warranty; a clause in a charter or deed by which the grantor obliges himself that the right conveyed shall be effectual to the receiver. Ersk. Prin. 2, 3. 11.
In the language of the stock exchange, this is tlie operation performedby a broker who fills an order from one customer to buy a certain stock or commodityby simply transferring to him
In old records. Such goods as, after a wreck, swim or float on thewaves. Jacob.
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Thestatute 3 Edw. I., A. D. 1275. This statute, which deserves the name of a code ratherthan an act, is divided into fifty-one chapters. Without extending the exemption ofchurchmen from civil jurisdiction,
A Mongolian is not a “white person,” within the meaning of the term as used In the naturalization laws of the United States; the term applies only to persons of the Caucasian
A country house or farm. Cowell.
The standard measure of England, originally kept atWinchester. 1 Bl. Comm. 274.
This phrase, used in making a qualified indorsement of a
A court held twice in the year in the forest of Clun, inShropshire, for determining all matters of wood and agistments. Cowell.
A curtilage or country farm.
A writ which lies where the party claims the recovery of a debt; t.e., a liquidated or certain sum of mouey alleged to be due to him.
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One who commits an injury; a tort-feasor.
A creditor of a municipal corporation to whom is given a municipal warrant for the amount of his claim, because there are no funds in hand to pav it. Johnson v. New
A written order issued and signed by a magistrate, directed to a peace officer or some other person specially named, and commanding him to arrest the body of a person named in
Kinship by descent from the sn